From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 6 06:12:42 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5BF51065681 for ; Sun, 6 Jul 2008 06:12:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jrisom@gmail.com) Received: from yw-out-2324.google.com (yw-out-2324.google.com [74.125.46.31]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C5CA8FC14 for ; Sun, 6 Jul 2008 06:12:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jrisom@gmail.com) Received: by yw-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 9so714980ywe.13 for ; Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:12:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding:message-id:content-type:to:from:subject :date:x-mailer; bh=Rf1JW9R75brIGbNAYm1NbFw04GN5oaTngtIlKe7jdKc=; b=dA2xRYIMatL31ZGpHK3sswtVkAX0ku5he4AYx6ttoDYlH9t43dpTCpWoedZwdy+j44 GdocQZ5d1C7pgKRKZshh7yUD97JQ+FjeVx/C+XA4b0yDKVBgj+Z4lSyw1l53AP/EpSwV 8b5YCgcOfyLJRlwhOJqXpw7auEtTQuBhCB6BU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:message-id:content-type:to :from:subject:date:x-mailer; b=mlafu+3CWdmO3LIHKh7xR/UYaPHpMUssSXSZtUC+GpcnsdFLbgyfcH7boeIBc5dT/o 1qj0OvF/+sJENDo2FJ4GOKASgDByQfFCg2lDNeGBBwQngFc+ZAIBjJPTutpWeO9DXego 72z1CWioDFqNcN2vFbVw7NRTL5LSNy0xFc8lY= Received: by 10.150.151.20 with SMTP id y20mr5483092ybd.78.1215324757617; Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:12:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.4? ( [98.212.164.35]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id a79sm8323815pye.7.2008.07.05.23.12.35 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:12:36 -0700 (PDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v624) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <266e55c771cbec02a4039641cff631c7@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed To: FreeBSD Questions From: Joshua Isom Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 01:13:17 -0500 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.624) Subject: Adding a new hard drive, and using geom X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 06:12:42 -0000 I bought a second hard drive for my computer since my /usr partition was getting full. I don't want to deal with hardware raid since I don't want to be dependent on a certain hardware vendor or chipset, so I'm wanting to go with geom. I'd prefer to not have to backup all my data(I know I should anyway, but it's a 500gb hard drive, and drives are growing faster than backup solutions). Would it be possible to do a geom stripe to expand /usr and keep all the data or would I just need to backup everything, and then put it all back? If I must deal with backing up and erasing, and considering that the current /usr and the new drive aren't the same size, how would I go about mirroring other paritions and striping /usr? Would that still be easily bootable(no special hacks or workarounds)? Any tips or other recommendations would be appreciated.